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Port St Mary

Port St Mary is a village district in the south-west of the Isle of Man.

Port St Mary
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The place

Port St Mary is a village district in the south-west of the Isle of Man. The village takes its name from the former Chapel of St Mary which is thought to have overlooked Chapel Bay in the village. Its population is 1,953 according to the 2011 census. In the 19th century it was sometimes called Port-le-Murray.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Port St Mary

5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Mull Hill

    Meayll Hill is a small hill in the exclave of Rushen parish at the southern end of the Isle of Man, just outside the village of Cregneash. It is the site of a chambered cairn called Meayll Circle or Mull Circle.

    1.9 km · hill on the Isle of Man · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Bradda Hill

    Bradda Hill is a headland some 2 kilometres north of the village of Port Erin on the Isle of Man. It is not to be confused with Bradda Head which is about 2 kilometres to the SW. The path to the summit from Bradda West is part of the Raad ny Foillan, the Isle of Man Coast long distance footpath.

    3.7 km · 233m high hill on the Isle of Man · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Balladoole

    Chapel Hill, Balladoole is a significant historical and archaeological site in Arbory on the Isle of Man. The site is a short distance from Castletown in the south of the Island.

    3.1 km · historic monument site on the Isle of Man · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Port St Mary Town Hall

    Port St Mary Town Hall is a municipal building on The Promenade, Port St Mary, Isle of Man. It accommodates the offices and meeting place of the Port St Mary Commissioners.

    300 m · Municipal building · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Isle of Man Railway Museum

    The Isle of Man Railway Museum in the village of Port Erin on the Isle of Man is a small museum of the history of the Isle of Man Railway from its founding in 1873 to the present, including the now-closed lines that served Peel, Ramsey and Foxdale, and the remaining open line between Douglas and Port Erin.

    1.7 km · railway museum, history museum in Rushen, Isle of Man · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Chapel Beach
  2. 02
    Cregneash

    A restored crofting hamlet, picturesque with its white-harled and thatched cottages and often used as a film and TV location.

From Wikivoyage: Port St Mary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

Boat trips sail from the harbour to the Calf of Man. Golf: Port St Mary Golf Club is on the hill south of the harbour. This is nine holes, day ticket £15.

From Wikivoyage: Port St Mary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

Fresh Fried & Crispy, Station Rd IM9 5BF (junction with Promenade),. Wed-Sat 5-8PM. Fish & chips cafe, eat in or take away.

  1. 01
    Andrea's

    Bay View Rd IM9 5DA,.

From Wikivoyage: Port St Mary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Port St Mary

Airports
Isle of Man (IOM), 8 km · Belfast (BFS), 116 km · Dublin (DUB), 123 km
Stations
Colby railway station, 3.1 km · Level railway station, 2.2 km · Port Erin railway station, 1.7 km · Port St Mary railway station, 700 m
  • Belfast → Port St Mary
    96 km · quickest by ferry, 7h 2m · £112–232
  • Dublin → Port St Mary
    129 km · quickest by ferry, 5h 12m · €67–152
  • Liverpool → Port St Mary
    138 km · quickest by ferry, 5h 2m · £67–153
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Port St Mary

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Port St Mary. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inPort St Mary is 13 miles southwest of Douglas the capital and ferry port, and 4 miles west of Ronaldsway Airport ().

From Wikivoyage: Port St Mary, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    169 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    204 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    222 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    306 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    322 km

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Around it

Next door to Port St Mary